FILE - Trevon Bluiett calls for a pass during the 2011 Adidas Invitational basketball tournament in Indianapolis July 7.

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Babe Kwasniak stops himself mid-sentence. He knows what he is about to say regarding Carlton Bragg, a junior-to-be basketball star at Cleveland's Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School, could be taken the wrong way.

Bragg is 6-9 and 210 pounds, ranked No. 12 in the latest national rankings by Rivals.com for the 2015 graduating class.

"By no means am I comparing him to Kevin Durant," said Kwasniak, Bragg's high school coach. "But looking at him now, when I hear people say that, maybe (the Durant comparison) is his ceiling. It's terrifying how much he's improved in the last year." ...